A Study on the Serious Leisure, Flow Experience, Leisure Benefits and Quality of Life for Yoga Movement

• Main Authors: HSU, SHIAO-CHI, 許曉琦
• Other Authors: LIU, LI-WEI
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6f5vr5

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 休閒事業管理系 === 106 === The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between serious leisure, flow experience, leisure benefit and quality of life of yoga, and by adopting PLS-MGA to compare the differences in the overall pattern of different types of yoga. A questionnaire survey was conducted by using the cluster sampling method in this study. Five types of yoga, including Hatha Yoga, Astangar Yoga, Hot Yoga, Fitness Yoga, and Yoga & Pilates, were studied. The subjecs of this study, from whom 276 valid questionnaires were collected, were tle participants who had more than one-year experierce of yoga. And the effective rate was 93%. Statistical methods such as descriptive statistics, PLS and PLS-MGA were used for analyzing in this study. The results of the PLS-SEM study showed that: (1) The serious leisure of the yoga positively influences the flow experience and leisure benefits, but had no significant effect on the quality of life. (2) The flow experience positively influenced leisure benefits and quality of life. (3) The leisure benefits of yoga positively affected the quality of life. (4) The serious leisure of yoga hadn’t indirect effects on the quality of life through the experience of flow and leisure benefits. The results of the PLS-MGA study showed that there were differences in the overall pattern of different types of yoga.